pop explained by korean is is one of the reasons that you are online but i had fans they singing in korean so maybe you are out of a job how does that actually happen how do you explain the spread of k. pop out of south korea where the bands are still singin in korean and the fans are loving. of first star i think social media really helps. because like you know it's really easy to say there's no barriers in terms of geography anymore. in terms of the language i think the the fandom culture the bank quarter and stock and keep up. they really want to support their artists there they are like their mothers and their fathers or the artists are just simply bands consuming their content they really want the best for their artists so they actually you know there's a lot of them they've been bottling turly you know i'll translate and try to spread the artist to other people outside of south korea to other countries so i think that kind of culture with engrave and we keep our industry among the fans is very very hot for inspiring this as well as videos like course. that explain the true meaning be

a proper long with the popular south korean t.v. dramas a major part of the korean cultural wave known as how you so today where discuss the rise of k. pop and how these major cultural export an image of korea abroad but joining us to talk about this is our panel of k. pop fans and so danny cam he's one of the creators of dk dk t.v. that's a you tube channel where you can watch his video series k. pop explained by korean in toronto canada michelle cho an assistant professor of east asian popular cultures at the university of toronto she is the author of how you two point zero the korean wave in the age of social media and in new york boric him she is the creator of the band known as e x p edition welcome all of you to the story and i want to start with a member of our community who pitched the idea for today show all the way from new zealand anthony sent us a video comment on why he thinks this is an important topic. why i like a fox because it's so clean through healthy. music coming out of south korea or from coughing critical. fo

also for the first time in that poll koreans expressed that south korean's economic future, not security, but economic future depended more on the u.s. rather than china. that was striking. really an expression of frustration in south korea for china's economic retaliations. favorable on the u.s. remains in the 6 range on a scale of 0 to 10. china has dropped to the 3 or 4 range. the impact of domestic politics, i think this is of particular interest as we think about how the south korean government will maneuver in the context of u.s./china rivalry. what is interesting is we have a progressive administration in south korea right now. historically we have thought that progressive administrations are going to be more antiamerican and more pro china. i would argue that we what see in this progressive administration in south korea is also a lot of wariness about china. and so their i think inclination is not to hedge against china's rise by depending more on the united states, but rather to hedge against china's rise by looking for more autonomous options and to try to pursue and take over

well, one of the north korean officials who faced the north korean officials who faced the sanctions,want to remember his name because he is the number to buy a north korea and the right—hand man to kim jong—un and the fact that the sanctions included him, the north koreans obviously had to react. i think it would not have made sense as they did not react, and also the fact that donald trump had said a couple of days ago that everything is fine, many people have said that there is nothing totally unexpected in this. obviously, both leaders want denuclearisation, however, the matter is how bad they wanted. this thinking to note is that he also appeared on state tv because today marks the anniversary of the death of kim —— kimjong il, the father of kim jong—un. of the death of kim —— kimjong il, the father of kim jong-un. given what you are telling us, that this statement is not as strong as it habs was in past times, what is tell us habs was in past times, what is tell us about relations are with north korea and the united states? well, in terms of north korea, some a nalysts say in te

korean business is making choices and their moving out of china. on the point paul makes, i think the major, the oecd countries in asia, the advanced industrial economies, , welcome a tougher u.s. line. i think europeans, the major, the french, the germans do as well. what's our strategy? that part is not so clear. what's our choice? getting tougher is not a strategy. strategy begins and ends with ways and means. the lighthizer end-state, the mnuchin end-state are all very,y different and almost mutually incompatible. we will start to lose come with a lot of support for getting tougher. we will start losing the japanese and the french and the germs and us trillions and the canadians if we don't figure out where we're trying to go with this. they are not going for full blown 25% tariff or surrender and falling in love with xi jinping. i think we're in a worse place in general because of the collapse of asean centrality, to muster consensus not surprising after the tribunal decision in 2016. on the other hand, i divide, i would say in continental sou

when we talk about the korean peninsula it includes the territory of our country as well as the whole of south korea with the united states has placed its invasive forces including nuclear weapons when we talk about the complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula it means the removal of all sources of nuclear threats not only from south to north korea but also from areas neighboring the korean peninsula. all relations between pyongyang and washington took a nosedive when trump initially took office as the two countries leaders traded insults and threats the situation has improved though in mid june this year when the two met in singapore donald trump and kim jong committed themselves to denuclearizing of the korean peninsula and normalizing relations the summit was seen as something of a breakthrough although not much has been accomplished since with u.s. officials insisting crippling sanctions will remain in. the united states has no intention of easing are unilateral or united nations sanctions they have they have not lived up to the commitment so far and until that happens th

i think the handshake between the north korean and south korean leader was actually quite meaningful that has been the most important diplomatic initiative of this year i think south korea has been quite skillful in engaging north korea and they have a number of specific on. contracts that they're working on now they want to build infrastructure that actually has potential for bringing north korea then of course there was the trump kim handshake that was meant to be historic in effect it was really just a very city is so where do you see donald trump's role in all of this. his policy is all about disruption but i think in the korea conflict we see that disruption in itself is not a strategy the real progress if you want to talk of any progress has been made by very classic diplomacy on the south korean side and also on the chinese side but isn't the fact that the u.s. and north korea met their leaders and that is not a sign of progress. it's that there was the will to make progress but between donald trump and the state department there's a big rift about that donald trump wanted tha

leader since the korean war and that will take place possibly in the new year. communion. chairman cume expressed regret towards the fact that his visit to so did not take place as was agreed between the two leaders and. chairman kim expressed a strong willingness to visit seoul as he monitors the situation kim also stated that he is willing to meet often with president moon in two thousand and nineteen to advance discussions on the peace and prosperity of the korean peninsula and to resolve together the issue of denuclearizing the korean peninsula. and rob all eyes of course will be on kim's new year address and what it might mean a further u.s. north korea talks. indeed daryn in the opaque world of north korean politics this new year address by the leader of north korea offers a valuable insight into the current thinking in the north now you'll remember that last year we had a very strange mixed message on the one hand kim said very scary that he now had a nuclear button on his desk but at the same time saying that north korea had achieved its objective of gai

it would have been the first time a north korean leader traveled to the south korean capital. but a source told me last week that the chances of that actually happening now are close to zero. there are a lot of reasons for that, some logistical. but others, it speaks to the fact it's unclear if kim really wants to russia head with this process now. that raises questions, if this second summit between trump and kim will happen in january or february as the united states has said it would. i know that there was a situation within the last couple of weeks where the u.s. side was trying to call the north korean side. sources said 10 or 20 phone calls and the north koreans never answered. so at this point there aren't conversations happening. and without conversations, you can't make plans for a summit. and without a summit you can't make progress on denuclearization. >> will ripley live in hong kong. we'll keep in touch with you. thank you. >>> a chaotic year in washington winding down now with a tweet storm by the u.s. president, donald trump lashing out at multiple targets on su

the north koreans have been angered by the us military restarting exercises with the south korean militaryere are questions about how this now proceeds into the new year, whether there will be further progress. things seemed to have slowed down since donald trump met kim jong—un in singapore, six months ago. but the president is referring to the north korean negotiations but the president referring to the north korean negotiations on twitter, just a few days ago, said, there was no hurry and that things were going fine. also making news today: a brazilian faith healer accused of sexual abuse by more than 300 women, has handed himself in to the police. joao teixeira de faria, known as "john of god" had been declared a fugitive when police failed to find him to serve an arrest warrant on friday. mr faria has denied the accusations and says he will appeal. the united nations special envoy to yemen is urging both sides to respect the ceasefire signed in sweden last week. the deal was meant to end fighting in the port of hudaydah. but clashes between houthi rebels and pro—government forces have

leader indeed since the korean war and that that visit would take place during this year that was the stated intention when the two leaders met in pyongyang for their third summit in september but it wasn't to be the case even as late as last week some people were predicting that the visit might be taking place on the thirtieth and thirty first clearly that's not happening but this letter does now lead to speculation that the visit will take place possibly as early as the new year communed on to chairman kim expressed regret towards the fact that his visit to seoul did not take place as was agreed between the two leaders in pyongyang chairman kim expressed a strong willingness to visit seoul and has been monitoring the situation kim also stated that he's willing to meet often with president moon in two thousand and nineteen to divans discussions on the peace and prosperity of the korean peninsula and to resolve together the issue of the nuclearization what officials are still confident about the general direction of into korean relations last wednesday a groundbreaking ceremony indeed

the o oth the other thing the north koreans are watching is the syria decision. what have they learned from this? that the president does not want to have troops overseas, that he thinks the defend the united states is from within their own borders. i think the north koreans think if they keep watching, they might be able to convince him to withdraw troops from south korea. >> that's such an excellent point. how many times during the campaign did we hear the president question why do we have so many troops on the dmz? and we know people like secretary mattis have said to him with the map explaining, i know that was in woodward's book or i've lost track of the books now, this is why. so there definitely is a link there, not to mention the fact that the president over the christmas holiday has been tweeting about negotiating with and talking to players like u un and erdogan. >> and america's allies and frenemies understand this is what trump wants, he doesn't want troops overseas. that's why you have turkey pressing its advantage in syria and the taliban will be ab

history delayed north korean leader kim jong un says his trip to seoul will happen just not this year as planned. and later in sport we'll hear from the woman who has just made history in the ultimate fighting championship . more than two hundred palestinians have been killed by israeli soldiers in months of protests at the gaza border fence thousands more have been injured but now the new york times is raising questions on the israeli military's use of live fire against protesters a new report focuses on the death of twenty year old medic. who was killed by gunfire during a protest in june after analyzing over a thousand photos videos the times concluded the job did not pose any security threat and was standing on one hundred meters away from the border fence when she was killed by a sniper the israeli military says it is investigating the death joining us now is one of the journalist behind the investigation david how the new york times jerusalem bureau chief thanks very much for being with us so i want to ask you first of all what gave you the idea of of looking into this whole thi

and the south koreans don't want to be pressured. and that better strategy where south korea is soft. but also another factor that determines long-term is who is shaping international order? with this direct competition but what the south koreans are saying that to be more of power based hierarchy and to know what that feels like and looks like historically so as this competition emerges that south koreans will look hard and also traditionally they have gone with living successfully. . >>. >> we just have a question. . >> and there are two dynamics , i guess there are three for which our allies and the natural evolution of that. the second is the united states going to our allies with those specific issues to say you have to take control. but it is a little more complicated. we make the choices that may not specifically asking the allies to make those decisions and the consequences of those choices to affect our allies and listening about what she said at the beginning that this administration at least to make the choice of the polic

brian, what are the north koreans say? >> reporter: the north koreans are saying that the u.s.o go back to the worst days of last year when tensions with north korea were at their highest. as wolf mentioned, the north koreans have spared president trump any personal insults and analysts believe the north koreans are trying to drive a wedge between the state department and the president. tonight kim jong-un's regime is making an overt threat to the u.s. government to pull back on i think effort to get rid of its nuclear weapons. the north koreans accusing the state department and other u.s. government agencies of s sabotaging kim's deal with president trump. pyongyang is furious over new sanctions on three top officials close to kim for their human rights violations, kim's regime saying in a new statement those sanctions could, quote, block the path to denuclearization on the korean peninsula forever. >> it is typical north korean negotiating behavior. they want a door prize before they come into the negotiating room or they send a signal as to what they want. it is trying to pu

south korea's president has received a letter from move korean leader kim jong il formal talks in the new year president moon office came also rick expressed regrets that he was unable to visit the south before the end of twenty eighteen came the moon met three times this year and have made a series of goodwill gestures the south koreans say came and stated that he wanted to hold more summits to bring about the do you knew the rise ation of the korean peninsula brightest more from so. the presidential office in seoul won't reveal too many details about the exact contents of this two page letter but it is being warmly received here by south korean officials president moon j.n. indeed has responded on social media thanking kim jong un personally there had been hopes that kim jong un would be visiting south korea it would be an historic visit the first by our north korean leader indeed since the korean war and that that visit would take place during this year that was the stated intention when the two leaders met in pyongyang for their third summit in september but it wasn't to be the ca

state leader was able to meet a north korean leader what the north koreans always wanted and demanded in order to really to to present their demands and this is security guarantees from the united states because they are the former and actual the present foes of the korean war. and so in that respect all the. administrations before trump they didn't do that we remember obama with his strategic patience approach which was just a mess nothing happened it just to became worse so the individual as problematic as he might be of donald trump was of great help here ok let's talk about the other regional player who is not so much in the picture japan they've announced today a huge increase in military or significant increase in military spending is that due to the fact that they don't really feel safe. yang and north korea or something else behind that decision well japan is always very special i mean of course most korea will serve as a very good pretext to say ok now we we feel pressured by that and we need to do boost. memory but the actual subject of that is of course china and the united

proves a huge increase in military spending we look back at a year of fluctuating tensions over the korean peninsula how genuine was a fall between north and south and does yack still pose a nuclear threat to peace. and in sports english premier league giants manchester united fire coach sure was a marine a football club pulled the plug on the controversial manager after the worst start to the season in nearly three decades. thank you so much for your company everyone a judge in washington is about to decide whether to send donald trump's former national security adviser michael flynn to prison for lying to the f.b.i. clinton has pleaded guilty to deceiving the f.b.i. about his contacts with russia's ambassador to the u.s. in january twenty seventeen when originally said he had not met with the ambassador when in fact he had lying to federal agents can carry a five year sentence. the case is linked to special counsel robert muller's investigation into possible illegal winds between the trump campaign and russia. all right as we hate and as we wait to hear what the verdict will be we can no

that's hurting the north korean economy, and they also say that the u.s.hich is military assets in south korea, the u.s. nuclear umbrella that protects south korea, knows are still in place. also, kim jong-un thought he owed get sanctions relief right away. trump probably thought north korea would happily dismantle its nuclear arsenal that it has been developing right away and neither side is getting what they want but at the moment kim jong-un is getting more than what president trump is. >> will ripley who has been to north korea 19 times, thanks so much, appreciate it. want to bring in the cnn counterterrorism analyst phil mud. when the president and kim jong-un met back in june they agreed to work towards complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula. does this demand from north korea surprise you? it seems like this is what they have been saying all along for a decade. >> this is not that complicated. look, you walk in and the north koreans are saying you've got to give to get. the president has given something. you'll recollect he stopped exercis

that's we start to see a little bit more in terms of rain coming in from the west for parts of the korean peninsula though it is going to be a cool day here in seoul us lots of sun in your forecast with a temperature there of zero pm yang about minus four issue or high as you come down here across parts of china we are going to see some clouds up here towards the north making the way a crushing high now look he to bed down for over the next few days just a little bit cooler there temps are there of about seventeen degrees same over towards taipei seventeen degrees in your forecast we are going to be seeing the rain starting to make their presence across parts of taiwan over the next few days but up towards shanghai it is going to be a partly cloudy day with a temperature of eighty degrees there and then here across the south china sea we are watching one system developing you can see the air of low pressure right there a tropical depression could become a tropical storm over the next few days we'll be watching a very carefully but we do expect to see some very heavy rain across parts of v

the north koreans have been angered by the us military restarting exercises with the south korean militarythere are questions about how this now proceeds into the new year, whether there will be further progress. things seemed to have slowed down since donald trump met kim jong—un in singapore, six months ago. but the president is referring to the north korean negotiations on twitter, just a few days ago, said, there was no hurry and that things were going fine. bruce bennett is a senior defence analyst with the think tank rand corporation and hejoins me now from just outside los angeles. north korea have targeted the us state department, as opposed to the us president donald trump. is there a strategy? sure, they think president trump is willing to compromise with them. before the singapore meeting had been no preparation for the us halting its military exercises, but can jump on asked for that at the singapore summitand asked for that at the singapore summit and president trump gave it to him. —— kimjong—un. they have this expectation that they can get something from president trump that

war of ending the state of war in the korean peninsula why would the e.u. nuclearized when there is a ending state of war there the next step to take place at that time is a commitment to denuclearize what they will look like but only after a peace treaty is entered. germany may block chinese telecom giant huawei from a government tender to develop a high speed internet network it comes amid rising security concerns over the company's possible espionage activity for beijing a u.s. delegation reportedly visited burleson and held a closed door meeting at the german foreign ministry and courage ing a boycott off our way the company has already been blocks from building high speed networks in the u.s. to australia and japan u.k. secret service chief alex younger has also voiced concern however germany's i-t. watch star has expected expressed skepticism due to the lack of evidence proving while ways my activity. for such serious decisions like a ban you need proof which every second editorial director of the american institute for economic research thinks this i

we face the north korean problem. you negotiated with the north koreans. condoleezza: i did.: what would you say are the chances north korea, the u.s., and south korea can come to some agreement? condoleezza: i have to say when i first heard the president had on the spot accepted kim jong-un's invitation, i thought, oh my goodness. what is he doing? then i thought you know, nothing else has worked, so why not? [laughter] i actually think they set the table pretty well. one of the conditions that is different is that once kim jong-un's programs got to the place that they actually threatened the united states, i think it got china's attention that the united states might actually go to war to prevent a north korean leader from being able to threaten the u.s. so i think they have a chance. i would just say three things. the first is north koreans have a history of when they are under sanctions and they start to bite, coming to the table, making promises, and then not carrying through. so beware. secondly, be very cognizant of other countries' interests. know that japan has big i

the north koreans have been angered by the us military restarting exercises with the south korean militaryere are questions about how this now proceeds into the new year, whether there will be further progress. things seemed to have slowed down since donald trump met kim jong—un in singapore, six months ago. but the president is referring to the north korean negotiations on twitter, just a few days ago, said, there was no hurry and that things were going fine. david maxwell is a senior fellow with the foundation for defense of democracies research organisation, in washington. thank you for your time. is a very specific attack on the us state department. what does that say about relations between the us and north korea? i think this is a normal reaction by north korea, whatever they are sanctioned, in particular human rights. focus on human rights is really a direct threat to kim jong—un, to his legitimacy. so these are very serious sanctions because they are very serious crimes, crimes about humanity that united nations enquiry into the 14 found in north korea. these are very serious sanct

leader indeed since the korean war and that that visit would take place during this year that was the stated intention when the two leaders met in pyongyang for their third summit in september but it wasn't to be the case even as late as last week some people were predicting that the visit might be taking place on the thirtieth and thirty first clearly that's not happening but this letter does now lead to speculation that the visit will take place possibly as early as the new year communed on. chairman kim expressed regret towards the fact that his visit to seoul did not take place as was agreed between the two leaders in pyongyang chairman kim expressed a strong willingness to visit seoul and has been monitoring the situation kim also stated that he's willing to meet often with president moon in two thousand and nineteen to divans discussions on the peace and prosperity of the korean peninsula and to resolve together the issue of the nuclearization officials are still confident about the general direction of into korean relations last wednesday a groundbreaking ceremony indeed took p

surely sas that another north korean summit needs to be held. failing to deliver on its promises to do nuclear as well in the june summit was really a purely for the show for the. reality was heard it was worse than that because it if you read this the statement that they put out it was so vague that it didn't provide any guidance for how to how to put together a diplomatic process that actually realize any other element will bring any tangible result i think it's a mistake to have a summit at all. yes unless. the north koreans have boycotted the two meetings that secretary pump a of it's called. they were invited to geneva by. our north korea special representative he's pushed into days of vienna waiting and they never showed up so i think they're playing trump against his own government you know if they're smart well i think i think. the root of the problem is somewhere in a different place on paper plan now wants to normalize relations with us on paper promising to do nuclear as in return for washington to nuclear ization comes first . could

dark north korean chocolate i can tell you that it tastes just like any other dark chocolate anywhere around the world. so this is how suddenly you get treated to cranberry juice. i can barely remember being given such access at other locations around the world we were just told to see the president which is just outside the doors. and given the fact that we're inside the residence of the north korean leader kim jong un again i'm just going to say i'm absolutely shocked. and. it is really disappointing that we won't be able to find out exactly what's being said behind these stories but just a few hours before mr kim and mr lavrov met the one foreign minister said that making the korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons is a very delicate issue moscow maintains that the interests of all sides must be respected. so that said it all ended with. inviting came john. to russia so let's see whether the north korean leader will accept the invitation for now we're heading back to the airport in the russian foreign minister's motorcade to try and go right from inside kim jong un's residence. to

north korean leader kim jong un says his trip to seoul will happen just not this year as planned more in that stay with us. hello again it's good to have you back where across china we are looking at some quite conditions across much of the area we have some clouds here across much of the central area some clouds also off the coast before hong kong a mostly cloudy departed cloud today for you on monday temps about seventeen degrees shanghai some clouds in your forecast that you get a little bit better by the time get to tuesday maybe eight degrees there in taipei just a couple showers just to the east of you with the tempter they have about eighteen degrees well as we make our way over here towards india looking quite nice for much of the area the problem areas going to be the north we are dealing with very cold temperatures also some very dense fog across much of that area as well as some haze causing some pollution in those regions so for new delhi twenty one degrees is going to be a high down towards the south a few passing clouds maybe a few intermittent showers for colombo with a

h korean le.will be right tuesday december 4th i have opportunity to interview white wohouse national security avers john bolton. but the annual wall street journal ceo counsel in washington. m i began by asking is him about north korea. and the president previous comments thatut he and north korean leader kim jong-un have, quote, fallen in love. >> the president i think has established a very strong personal relationship with kim jong-un. i thinkbo i have a relationship with kim jong-un he said at the lunch we have with in singapore i think you and i have to take a fir together because i'm going to take it back to north korea to show it to hard liner to tell them not such a bad guy did you say to take the the picture back to you? >> sure. [laughter] so -- so -- lookm we're going to pursue thi, if the north koreans follow through on commitments they made in singapore. president trump will deserve the noble peace prize, he opened a door for them. now they have to walk through it. that's what we hop

those korean stores were targeted and in some cases those shop owners were targeted. >> most koreansy '80s. you're still dealing with the first generation and in korea they all have to go through military service. so they just became weekend commandos. >> these korean shop owners defended their property with bullets. >> all the gun shops in korea town lent out all their guns and they just mobilized. and the young guys, they told us just to patrol the streets. we could make our parents proud and stick up for our community. >> it turn into the biggest rebellion riot in the history of the united states of america since the civil war. >> for the first time since the verdict, the world heard from rodney king. >> people, i just want to say, you know, can we all get along? can we get along? >> rodney king is not a public spokesman. he's not an activist. he was a victim of a police beating. clearly, he didn't know what to say. i mean, what is there to say? you beat the shit out of me and i'm still alive. [ bleep ] you. that's what you should say. he didn't say that. he said, can we all get a

the city council in the south korean capital seoul has approved initial funding for a plan to co-host in the olympics it with pyongyang the proposal for a joint a north south a bit was agreed to by the leaders of the two countries at their last thought it but it will cost we know half a billion dollars for south korea alone a price tag that's expected to climb stately mcbride reports from some. all decked out for the season of giving the city of seoul is learning just how much she will have to give to co-host the olympic games in twenty thirty two seoul metropolitan council met to help formulate its bid as well as the initial cost billions more will have to be spent on infrastructure in both koreas. in spite of the hefty price tag many here believe it's worth it. if we can co-host i think it will provide a good opportunity to move towards peace the only captain and then of course cost is a concern but there's around thirteen years to go and north korea could develop its economy to a considerable extent by then given its relative wealth compared to its much poorer northern neighbor sou

the north koreans are trying to circumvent it, and they're changing their tactics. give you a little refresher on this. there are strict sanctions on the amount of oil that the north koreans can import into their country. it's actually quite strangling, but they've been able to work around that by doing these ship to ship transfers so in the middle of the night they have one ship come up. it may offload some coal. it may take on some oil as well, so it's a way that the north koreans have been trying to keep their economy afloat while they go through these diplomatic actions with the president, but it's clear that they're breaking these, and the fact that this report is getting out there is an indication, craig, that the pentagon wants to turn on the pressure against the north koreans. craig. >> what's interesting here also, i spent some time with the u.n. ambassador to the -- the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley a few days ago, the outgoing ambassador, and this was one of the things of which she was proudest, the ability of that body to put the scre

negotiation process when it comes to contempt koreans and.in fact the entire korean process has produced some remarkable achievements last year. mainly they established a robust dialogue channel between both countries we have no more than thirty five. lines of communication between the two koreas. office which was just that list and the reduction of guard posts along the d.m.z. woods are symbolic but very important achievements in their own different picture when it comes to dealing to restage us ok so it's important to keep these these two strands separate we do tend to confuse them in our minds sometimes in a report we just saw a number of historic handshakes that happened during twenty eight teen with the north korean leader but what's really been achieved beyond these sort of symbolic gestures you mentioned lines of communication that's all well and good where is this going well with the u.s. and north korea on the bilateral level to they restart the dialogue. general between the two countries which has been blocked basically since one ca

russia so let's see whether the north korean leader will accept the end. for now we're heading back to the airport in the russian foreign minister's motorcade to try and go right from inside camp john residence in pyongyang. will eventually it was for him for the world of politics and for a bit last month we caught up with a russian man who's defied the odds to become a world class athlete. the point is a slaughter is a little as it's been led to prison. for the most number of us as one is syria which is to lower the price to below still breathe of shells exported to. supply. more leach need to be in your. distribution boom bottle of three outlawed. new post but the most acute stress reply. you are supplied need may be a push the blog. post now richest. people. in europe will risk the mission of supposed share similar shortage there with the. us market. much impermissible is bordered with fisher chest nickel for the bore elite the smarter with which you do she turns you. really will disappear. got off serious should be on cruising really all up all of the

he has had difficulty securing a meeting with his north korean counterparts. last month north korean officials abruptly canceled a scheduled meeting with secretary of state mike pompeo and a north korean state publication wrote pyongyang refuses to dismantle its weapons until the united states illuminates the threat it poses to north korea. it also pushed the us to ease sanctions. officials have refused. >> the world remains united in enforcing and implementing united nations sanctions until the final fully verified position of north korea. >> reporter: officials are waiting utterly 20's new year's day address for indications of where north korea stands on this process which is for -- the us and north korean governments have notable medic relationships. church leaders in indonesia asking for prayers for victims of the tsunami triggered by a volcano. the death toll is rising, thousands are homeless. amy kellogg is monitoring the rescue effort, seismic activity in italy and she joins us from milan. >> reporter: italy sits on faultlines and there's been quite a l

is said to become one of the biggest infrastructure projects on the peninsula to modernize north korean railways and roads and connect them with the south. north korea seen from the south across what used to be one of the most impenetrable borders in the world it is all changing now and this train heading north and carrying one hundred south korean officials as part of the process hopes are high for the two koreas to grow closer together after decades of separation. reconnection of railways the roads means more than just the physical reconnection people and supplies will come and go through the roads and we will have closer cooperation in culture sports tourism and health. from the north a call for the people to come together. well you know in touch throughout all the results of the raid and road project hinge on the spirit and will of our people we cannot accomplish that reunification if we hesitate and fail to care about other countries. too. for now however a major hurdle is the north korean regime itself construction on any rail and wrote links can start any time soon as necessary m

also for the first time in that poll koreans expressed that south korean's economic future, not security, but economic future depended more on the u.s. rather than china. that was striking. really an expression of frustration in south korea for china's economic retaliations. favorable on the u.s. remains in the 6 range on a scale of 0 to 10. china has dropped to the 3 or 4 range. the impact of domestic politics, i think this is of particular interest as we think about how the south korean government will maneuver in the context of u.s./china rivalry. what is interesting is we have a progressive administration in south korea right now. historically we have thought that progressive administrations are going to be more antiamerican and more pro china. i would argue that we what see in this progressive administration in south korea is also a lot of wariness about china. and so their i think inclination is not to hedge against china's rise by depending more on the united states, but rather to hedge against china's rise by looking for more autonomous options and to try to pursue and take over

so let's see whether the north korean leader will accept the invitation for now we're heading back to the airport in the russian foreign minister's motorcade. right from inside kim john residence. getting into the places other channels that's it for me the news team for now thanks for watching all of your spending then you have a great time and i hope you have a happy and healthy twenty. welcome to the crystal ball edition of crosstalk what can we expect in the new year we have a great lineup of guests telling us they. time after time so you know what you're going on the ground while we're away for christmas we're screening some of your favorite episodes of the season coming up in this we speak to sheffield. about the u.k. government's hostile foreign policy and hostile environment from libya and yemen to all grieve and as the trades union congress celebrates its one hundred. fiftieth anniversary today we go to the site of the battle of all green where tens of thousands of office goggles and u.n. miners were attacked by thousands of police following the lord mayor's appeal to home sec